Kelvin Thomson (Wills, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Public Accountability and Human Services) Share this | Hansard source

I withdraw. I am nevertheless reminded of that expression. Those photos of AWB officials posing with guns in Iraq speak volumes about a cowboy outfit with a frontier mentality and a contempt for the international rule of law.

Of course, we have seen this all before. In March last year we saw pictures of the gun-toting $US20,000-carrying Liberal Senator Ross Lightfoot in Iraq. The Prime Minister refused to hold an inquiry into that matter, and boldly stated that he accepted Senator Lightfoot’s explanation of the matter, even though Senator Lightfoot had changed his story about the incident more than once. We never did get to the truth of the matter, although I did compose a limerick to try and tell the story. (Time expired)

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